Word: antwerp
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...contrast, a laudatory report from the Foreign Service Inspector, Ambassador Robert McClintock, was accidentally misfiled under the name of another Charles W. Thomas, then Consul General in Antwerp. The report was eventually logged into its proper place, two days after Thomas had been turned down by the promotion board. The board deemed it too much bother to reopen the case...
Really sophisticated agro-frauders make profits both coming and going. Their aim is not to sell their products at all, but to keep them moving around in a circle, changing labels at each border as subsidies and tariffs dictate. One Antwerp grain dealer set some kind of agro record by shipping the same boatload of wheat back and forth between Antwerp and Rotterdam for days. The cargo was never unloaded, but simply relabeled with the name of a different kind of grain at each port...
Traditionally barred from many occupations, the Jews of Europe's ghettos gravitated for centuries toward dealing in money and jewelry. By World War II, roughly half of the diamond cutters and polishers in Antwerp and Amsterdam were Jewish. Those who managed to flee the Nazis took their skills with them. In the late 1930s, several hundred anguished but unbeaten refugees started the industry that today produces Israel's chief export: polished diamonds...
...matter of fact, all Bruegel's art concerns itself with the changeless and the immediate at the same time. His Dulle Griet is nightmare, which presides, now and forever, in cellars of human sleep. He painted The Tower of Babel as an allegory of old Antwerp, but young Manhattan's towers might as well have been meant. Two Monkeys may be seen as just a humanist's sympathy for the misery of chained animals -or as a symbolist's protest against the plight of the Flemish provinces under the rule of Spain...
...transformed the dream into battle orders. Hitler proposed to regain the offensive by deploying Germany's last reserves to smash through a lightly held sector of the Belgian front. His panzers would entrap as many as 30 U.S. and British divisions, capture the strategic supply port of Antwerp, and perhaps end the war in the West with a negotiated peace. Hitler thought of it as another Dunkirk and code-named it "Wacht am Rhein [Watch on the Rhine]." Allied archives would later refer to "the Battle of the Ardennes." To men who were there when the offensive began...